Atlas Obscura

Jingling Pot is one of the most popular vertical cave systems in the West Kingsdale area of Yorkshire. The cave, or as is known locally, pothole (pit cave in American English), is on the flanks of one of Yorkshires finest mountains, Wherneside. It is about 145 feet deep and explorers have the option of a direct abseil (rappel) descent down the main shaft or, a  traver...

Allen Hopps, owner and creator of the North American Cryptid Museum (NACM) in Plano, Texas, has a message he wants everyone to hear: Our world needs monsters! He is on a quest to bring you face-to-face with our homegrown North American monsters.

As a kid who was afraid of the dark, he’s come a long way. His first love was the werewolf. The Loch Ness Mo...

Tucked away just a few minutes from Mostar, Bunski Kanal is one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's most overlooked natural treasures. Here, the emerald-green Buna River squeezes through a narrow limestone channel before merging with the larger Neretva River, creating a striking display of swirling currents, vivid colors, and raw natural power.

Despite its proximity to...

Stretching 18km between modern day Kwai Chung (then known as Gin Drinkers Bay) to Port Shelter in Sai Kung, the Gin Drinkers Line was a massive defensive structure built by the British army, dubbed as 'the Maginot line of the East'.

Construction on the line began in 1936, and took 2 years to complete. The lynch-pin of the entire line was the Shing Mun Redoubt, ...

In 2012, the owner of a local Ottawa, Illinois, repair shop towed a 2001 Volvo S80 onto a peninsula and then used an excavator to create a small, one-car island.  He intended to run a contest asking people to guess how the Volvo got there.  The contest never materialized, as there was some concern that people might try to cross the 40-foot-deep lake for a better look....